The Route

The summit of Culebra Peak was considered the “start” of the route and the summit of Longs Peak the “finish”. The trip was about 1,300 miles with a total elevation gain close to 300,000 feet. The route included stretches of the Colorado and Continental Divide Trails, some segments were along state highway corridors, there were many cross country legs and high traverses, as well as hundreds of miles of Forest Service trails and old roads.

Click on the map below to download the .kmz file to view in google earth. The path is not entirely accurate due to the mapping software that the file was created with. Two examples: the path from Snowmass to Aspen is shown to be along the road, in fact we hiked the Government Trail during that stretch; along Dillon Reservoir we walked the multi use path, not the road as the .kmz file would indicate. The file CAN be used to do a flyover and view our SPOT checkins. THE FILE IS NOT INTENDED FOR NAVIGATION.

19 Responses to The Route

Jack,
I really like that route. I have another route I am planning for the summer of 2014, but might make some revisions based on yours 🙂 It should be a good summer for early hiking with our weak snow fall this winter. I am very excited to see your progress through this incredible journey. Keep us posted, have fun!

Nice work! And here I was hiking along this summer on my Vagabond Loop (AZT, HDT, GET, CT), alone for nearly 5 months, thinking I bet know has thru hiked the 14ers! Hahahaha! I figured it would be between 1200-1500m. I guess I wasn’t too far off. You 2 are doing something special; keep it up

Thanks Dirtmonger, before I left I was reading about your trip…very cool! If you go to ADZPCTKO, next year, we should meet up.

Kristiana, email me at 14ersthruhike@gmail.com and I will send you our projected dates for the remaining peaks and we will see if y’all can make it for one of them. So far we’ve only had company on La Plata.

Congratulations on such an amazing achievement. In a present day world of selfishness, hatred, and corruption I applaud you for something so noble and courageous. You are an inspiration to so many. I hope you are able to exceed your goal and expectations.

Congratulations! I considered doing a walking route of the Colorado Fourteeners in 2005, but I had already climbed them all, including three times up Culebra and seven times up Longs, both of which are pretty remote from other fourteeners. Instead, I did what I called the “Homeless On the Range Expedition,” climbing 200 Colorado thirteeners in 3 1/2 months.

I’M THRULY GOING TO HIKE THIS TRAIL! I hope there’s a lot of up-&-overs on this route with minimal out-&-backs – demanding that thru-hikers carry their stuff to each summit. 12 of these peaks will be repeats for me but I’m ok with that. Thanks for putting this together Juniad, I’m excited to learn more about it and am at your service.

I’d be happy to help. Any questions I can answer or info I can give is yours. A few out and backs, yes, but lots of up and overs too. Plenty of customization can be done too. Also, at least two hotsprings along the way…